GQ Interview: Paul Rudd, Tracy Morgan, & Zach Galifianakis
By F.E. on Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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GQ: Do you guys know one another?
TRACY MORGAN: Yeah. Me and Zach met before. We did a movie together.
GQ: What movie did you guys do together?
TRACY: G-Force.
GQ: Ah, yes. How was that?
TRACY: It was cool. We never met, but I was glad to be a part of it with Zach.
PAUL RUDD: Wait, "Me and Zach met before. We did a movie together. We never met"?
GQ: So did your characters talk to each other even though you two never met each other?
TRACY: Absolutely not.
ZACH GALIFIANAKIS: Tracy, that's not true.
TRACY: We had a line together or something?
ZACH: You were animated, and I was live action.
TRACY: But did you ever get to speak to Blaster? I don't know if you spoke to Blaster.
ZACH: I talked to Blaster, to Juarez, to all the characters that were so loved by America.
TRACY: I stand corrected.
PAUL: I've never talked to Blaster.
ZACH: Tracy probably won't recall this, but I was a writer on Saturday Night Live for two weeks. He was there. And he did a sketch with Britney Spears.
TRACY: Yeah. It was Woodrow. He lived in the sewer.
ZACH: That was the first time I'd ever seen Tracy do anything. I wasn't that aware of him, and then I went to Saturday Night Live for two weeks, and that sketch was just so funny to me.
TRACY: You tore Saturday Night Live up. I laughed so fuckin' hard. Zach's built for comedy. Like Mike Tyson in his prime—he was built for boxing, from the tip of his head to the bottom of his feet, just straight boxer. That's how Zach is with comedy.
ZACH: I think you may be right. I used to be really cute. I could send you earlier photos where I'm stunning. But I've gained about twenty pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I've put on, the more success I've had. If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.
GQ: Bill Murray is also in this issue, and he says the funniest movie he's seen recently is Kung Fu Hustle. What do you think is the funniest movie that you saw in the last five or ten years?
ZACH: G-Force.
PAUL: What's the one with Blaster? That one's the funniest.
TRACY: I'm gonna go with Talladega Nights.
PAUL: The Piano.
GQ: How would you make The Piano funnier?
ZACH: No piano.
PAUL: One or two more fart jokes would do it. Right now there're about ten of them that I can think of.
ZACH: I would have to say In the Loop was the funniest movie I've seen lately.
GQ: What TV show do you think is funny?
TRACY: Brandy & Ray J.
PAUL: Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, that's really funny.
ZACH: I think if they put a laugh track on Intervention, it would be funny.
PAUL: Have you seen Hoarders?
TRACY: Hoarders is serious stuff, man.
GQ: There's enough there, enough hoarders in the world, for there to be a whole season on TV about it?
PAUL: You have no idea how many hoarders there are. You could throw a stick and hit a hoarder anywhere.
TRACY: You gotta look at Lockup.
GQ: What's Lockup?
TRACY: Oh man, this is subculture. Interesting. Guys washing their T-shirts out in toilet bowls.
ZACH: I don't know if this is being racist or something, but there're never any Asians on that show.
TRACY: Never! They don't go to jail.
ZACH: Why? Why?
PAUL: They're all too busy hoarding.
GQ: All right, speaking of races, what's the funniest race?
PAUL: The Iditarod.
ZACH: I used to have a joke: That show, The Amazing Race? Is that about white people?
GQ: All right, then. Who's funnier, Jews or black people?
TRACY: I would say Jewish people. Black people are angry. We get mad about shit.
ZACH: But if you combine them, then you have Sammy Davis Jr.
TRACY: You have the greatest entertainer.
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